Ursula Buchfellner Bio
Ursula Buchfellner is a German actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on June 8, 1961, in Munich, Germany, and has also been credited as Ulla Maris, Ursula Fellner, Ursula Maris, and Uschi Buchfellner. Playboy named her its October 1979 Playmate at 18. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Buchfellner has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 33-23-33.
Discovered in a Munich beer garden at 16, Ursula Buchfellner slipped into the public eye in a way that reads like a piece of late‑1970s European lore: with family encouragement and parental consent arranged under a pretext, she posed for Playboy Germany’s December 1977 issue and became that edition’s record‑setting young centerfold. Her early international exposure—her centerfold was shot by Peter Weissbrich and later crossed borders into the American pages—turned a local encounter into a transnational modeling moment.
The magazine door opened work in a particular strand of European cinema. Buchfellner became a familiar presence in erotic and exploitation fare, turning up in titles such as Popcorn and Raspberry Ice Cream and The Last Harem and collaborating with director Jesus Franco. These were films that traded on mood and milieu rather than mainstream studio gloss, and they kept her name circulating through continental genre circuits.
She was pragmatic about opportunities and money. After declining an $80,000 Penthouse offer in 1979, she later posed for Penthouse in 1985—an unusual crossing of the magazine divide at the time—and parlayed modeling earnings into something steadier, buying an apartment in Munich when many of her contemporaries did not have that kind of financial foothold.
By the mid‑career years Buchfellner quietly shifted away from erotic features toward German television, taking small parts on series including Derrick, Die Wicherts von Nebenan and Zum Stanglwirt. Her post‑screen life broadened further: she trained in cosmetology, worked as a children’s sports teacher, studied astrology, and in 2015 published an autobiography that candidly recounts a difficult upbringing and the pressures of an industry that could be as unforgiving as it was lucrative.
The through line is practical reinvention: a young model who navigated international pages and European film work, then redirected the proceeds and the attention into a varied, if sometimes unexpected, set of second acts—training, teaching and finally a memoir that put the earlier chapters into a new frame.
